---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONSERVATION: Provides relative to the \"Soil Conservation Districts Law\". (gov sig)"
description: "CONSERVATION: Provides relative to the \"Soil Conservation Districts Law\". (gov sig)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 205"
citation: "Louisiana SB 205 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katrina Jackson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-03-03"
last_action: "2022-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be6eba43-9f64-47f0-b193-6ee0d47b2c1b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=242146"
source_hash: "62fdd5e1cb5f04b44061a055ba38b8bffa4fd45809fa91a8ce91873dd1baaa1b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana SB 205 (2022) — CONSERVATION: Provides relative to the "Soil Conservation Districts Law". (gov sig)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB205 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1255343)
2. **SB205 Act 9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1279849)
3. **SB205 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259419)
4. **SB205 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1260920)
5. **Senate Committee Amendment, #637, AGRI, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259279)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #638, AGRI, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259398)
7. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #657, Mills, Fred, Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1259552)
8. **SB205 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1277736)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#745) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- FINAL PASSAGE (#25) — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Katrina Jackson — primary (person)
- Francis C. Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Malinda White — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne McMahen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-05-13** Effective date 5/13/2022.
- **2022-05-13** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 9. `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-12** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-11** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2022-05-11** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2022-05-10** Received from the House without amendments.
- **2022-05-10** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2022-05-05** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/10/2022.
- **2022-04-25** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2022-04-21** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2022-04-20** Reported favorably (12-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2022-03-23** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2022-03-21** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2022-03-15** Reported with amendments.
- **2022-03-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be6eba43-9f64-47f0-b193-6ee0d47b2c1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).